Sugar cookie

A sugar cookie is a cookie with the main ingredients being sugar, flour, butter, eggs, vanilla, and either baking powder or baking soda (depending on the type of sugar used).[1]

For the 1973 film, see Sugar Cookies (film).
Sugar cookie
Plain sugar cookies
TypeCookie
Main ingredientsFlour, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, baking powder or baking soda

Sugar cookies may be formed by hand, dropped, or rolled and cut into shapes. They are commonly decorated with additional sugar, icing, sprinkles, or a combination of these. Decorative shapes and figures can be cut into the rolled-out dough using a cookie cutter.

In North America, sugar cookies are popular during the holidays of Christmas, Halloween, and Hanukkah.

History

Although plain, sweet cookies have been made for centuries, sugar cookies became more common when sugar became widely available.

In the late 1950s, Pillsbury began selling pre-mixed refrigerated sugar cookie dough in US grocery stores, as a type of icebox cookie.[2]

  • Different styles of sugar cookies
  • Dropped sugar cookie
  • Undecorated sugar cookies, rolled out and cut into the shape of a flower
  • Dropped sugar cookie with a powdered sugar glaze and sprinkles
  • The six-pointed stars are filled with hard candy. The others are decorated with frosting.
  • Sandwich cookies made with sugar cookies and buttercream frosting

See also

References
  1. Sugar Cookie Recipe from the Food Network Retrieved February 12, 2009.
  2. Mercuri, Becky (2013). "Cookies". In Smith, Andrew F. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 521. ISBN 978-0-19-973496-2. OCLC 781555950.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.